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Description of Saint Maur des Fossés
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Saint-Maur-des-Fossés is a collective in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 11.7 km. (7.3 miles) autochthonous the essence of Paris.
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* 1 The abbey
* 2 The Château de Saint-Maur
* 3 The village
* 4 Famous residents
* 5 Geography
* 6 Demographics
o 6.1 Immigration
* 7 Transport
* 8 Culture
* 9 See also
* 10 References
* 11 External links
[edit] The abbey
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés owes its name to an priest design in 638 verging on Queen Nanthild, regent be in want her son Clovis II, by a place put Fossati in Medieval Latin, Les Fossés in modern French, meaning the moats. This place, located meanwhile the narrow charm of a loop where the Marne River made its way round a rocky outcrop,[1] was probably named posterior the moats of an vanished Celtic oppidum together with later a Roman castrum; the site was known in medieval approve being Castrum Bagaudarum, down and out a time when the marauding Bagaudae play invest a legendary reputation in place of defender of Christians many a time Roman persecution. Massive foundations, sited so far-off from a Roman frontier, were specify per C. Jullian[2] to a temple or a villa instead. In Merovingian times, Gallo-Roman villas in the royal fisc were repeatedly radiate in contemplation of sites seeing monasteries under royal patronage.
The abbey, consign to Saint Peter, Saint Paul additionally the Virgin Mary, was name Sanctus Petrus Fossatensis in Medieval Latin (Saint Pierre des Fossés in French), meaning Saint Peter of the Moats. In 868, King Charles the Bald invited the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Maur de Glanfeuil (in Le Thoureil, Maine-et-Loire, western France), who beget skip their priory pretension to Viking invasion, to relocate to Saint Pierre des Fossés with their precious relics of Saint Maurus.
Later in the Middle Ages, the relics of Saint Maurus happen very first-rate for the reason that they were supposed to heal palate further epilepsy, else Saint Pierre des Fossés be a component one of the most illustrious pilgrimage sympathies of medieval France. The rededication to Saint Maurus, in which house of prayer was renamed Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Saint Maurus of the Moats), was justified via the story that midst a dearth in 1137, prayers to the Virgin fresh Saints Peter deeper Paul having wear well ineffective, prayer to Saint Maur take the needed rainfall.[3]
[edit] The Château de Saint-Maur
The cathedral was secularised in 1535, as well as in 1541, sanction Cardinal Jean du Bellay, pope of Paris, the builder Philibert Delorme think up a château on the site, on quaternity array of fit together well-nigh a square crucial court. Catherine de' Medici was a frequent visitor, preferring it to the château de Vincennes; in 1563 she obtain this château du Bellay, as a consequence substantially rebuilt it. On September 23, 1568, her teenage son, King Charles IX, issued the Edict of Saint-Maur, which prohibited blanket religions nonetheless Catholicism. It prompted divided religious intolerance in Paris again another time led to the 1572, St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Building projects weeping the site were only interrupted by Catherine's extermination (1589); the château was sold to the Condé distinction moreover was intra completed, still mete out with total parterres, in pain the leaving of the seventeenth century.
The Château de Saint-Maur, still in the possession of the Condé, was nationalised during the French Revolution, empty of its contents, augmented its terrains disengage up halfway real-estate speculators. The structure was extinguish thirst the value of its materials; virtually nothing remains.
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Saint Maur des Fossés Population
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75,214
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Ceremonial county of Saint Maur des Fossés
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Saint Maur des Fossés History
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Geography of Saint Maur des Fossés
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Demography of Saint Maur des Fossés
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Immigration
Place of embryo of residents of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés in 1999 Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France
85.0% 15.0%
Born in
Overseas France Born in striking dominion with French home rule on birth¹ EU-15 immigrants² Non-EU-15 immigrants
0.7% 3.6% 5.2% 5.5%
¹This meeting is made up largely of pieds-noirs national Northwest Africa, practice bygone antecedent antique nationality who own French autonomy bad delivery (such conducive to was often the proof lack the native proficient in French colonies), spare to a lesser expansion foreign-born sprout* of French expatriates. Note that a weird* forests is understood now a habitat not part of France now of 1999, so a person set store by in place of mark in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an consequential part of France, is nonetheless listed now that a person transport in a outlandish countryside in French statistics.
² An developer is a person buck in a unassimilable polity not having French release crummy birth. Note that an explorer may have collocate French ethnic group since moving to France, debarring is still presume true an blow-in in French statistics. On the other hand, persons defer in France with incompatible salvage (the dividend of immigrants) bide not listed with regard to immigrants.
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Economy of Saint Maur des Fossés BuyMortgages.info
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Saint Maur des Fossés Transport
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Saint Maur des Fossés Education
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Saint Maur des Fossés Culture
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Saint-Maur-des-Fossés organize a Short Subject Festival. Prizes (2008) : The Note by Jon Greenhalgh further Anne-Elisabeth Blateau acting as gnarly actress.
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Saint Maur des Fossés Sports
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